Features

Following subway hero Wesley Autrey out from under
the train and into a world of handout seekers, crushing demands,
“business partners,” and other problems rarely
encountered in comic-book tales of triumph.

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun started out as a work of straightforward journalism. Then Peter Godwin found out that his father, a paragon of Britishness, had long hidden his past as a Polish Jewish refugee from the Holocaust.